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Literature 853

20th century 558

19th century 387

17th century 303

18th century 281

English literature 194

16th century 154

Poetry 151

English literature -- 20th century 124

Letters 120

Religion 114

Humanities 103

Greek literature 69

21st century 59

Poets 58

Latin literature 45

Literature -- Translations 45

History 44

Classical literature 42

English literature -- 19th century 42

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Antiquarians 40

English Literature 39

Church 37

Poems 37

English poetry 36

English poetry -- 20th century 34

Theology 32

Authors 31

x - 15th century 31

Literature -- 20th century 30

Children's literature 28

Authors -- 20th century 27

Books 27

Correspondence 26

Manuscripts 25

Playwriting -- Drama 25

Religious literature, English 22

Royal family 21

Novelists 19

Diaries 18

Classical literature -- Study and teaching 17

Oxford (England) 17

Sermons 17

14th century 16

Commonplace books 16

Essays 16

Letters -- 20th century 16

Novelists -- 20th century 16

Music 15

Authors, Classical 14

Biography 14

Law 14

13th century 13

English literature -- 18th century 13

French literature 13

Ireland 13

Italian literature 13

German literature 12

x - 12th century 12

Art 11

Authors, English 11

Authors, English -- 20th century 11

English language 11

English poetry -- 21st century 11

Lectures and lecturing 11

London (England) 11

Philosophy 11

Politics and Government 11

Prayers 11

Latin poetry 10

Photographs 10

University of Oxford 10

Bible 9

Bodleian Library 9

Literary criticism 9

Northamptonshire (England) 9

Political satire 9

Spanish literature 9

x - 11th century 9

Antiquities 8

Basque literature 8

Catholic Church 8

Drama 8

Dutch literature 8

Journalism 8

Liturgies 8

Medicine 8

Oxfordshire (England) 8

Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 8

Publishers and publishing 8

Scholars 8

University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 8

Women authors, English -- 20th century 8

Academic writing 7

Accounts 7

Artists 7

Authors -- 19th century 7

Bibliography 7

England 7

English literature -- 17th century 7

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Indexed names

Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 55

Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 13

Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Soldier, Author, and Archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 12

Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 11

Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 11

University of Oxford 11

Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 10

Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9

Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 9

Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8

Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 8

Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7

Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 7

Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 7

Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7

Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 7

Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 6

Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6

Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6

Tullius Cicero | Marcus | 106-43 BC | Roman orator and statesman 6

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Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 5

Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 5

Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 5

Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 5

Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 5

Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5

Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 5

Spelman | Sir | Henry | 1564-1641 | Knight | Historian and Antiquary 5

Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4

Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 4

Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 4

Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4

Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 4

Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4

Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 4

Dugdale | Sir | William | 1605-1686 | Knight | antiquary and herald 4

Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 4

Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4

Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 4

Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4

Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 4

Hermogenes | 161-180 | of Tarsus, Greek rhetorician 4

Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 4

Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 4

Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 4

MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4

Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 4

Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4

Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4

Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 4

Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 4

Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 3

Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3

Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3

Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 3

Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 3

Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3

Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3

Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 3

Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3

Elmsley | Peter | 1773-1825 | Classical Scholar 3

Eusebius of Caesarea | 265-339 AD | historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist 3

Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar 3

Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3

Lambert | Catherine | nee Read | b. 1918 | vocal coach 3

Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3

Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3

Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 3

Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 3

Nicholson | Edward Williams Byron | 1849-1912 | Bodley's Librarian, Poet, and Celtic and Biblical Scholar 3

Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 3

Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3

Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 3

Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3

Poynton | Arthur Blackburne | 1867-1944 | Greek scholar 3

Raleigh | Sir | Walter | 1861-1922 | Knight | Literary scholar and historian 3

Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | playwright and poet 3

Sidney | Sir | Philip | 1554-1586 | Knight | Soldier, statesman, and poet 3

Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3

Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 3

Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 3

Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 3

University of Oxford | Prizes 3

Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | writer and poet 3

Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 3

Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 3

Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 2

Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | Author 2

Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2

Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2

Apollonius | b. 295 BC | of Rhodes | author and poet 2

Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary and biographer 2

Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2

Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 2

Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 2

Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2

Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 2

Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2

Bodleian Library 2

Bodley | Sir | Thomas | 1545-1613 | Knight | diplomat, scholar, and founder of the Bodleian Library 2

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Language

English 1177

Latin 269

French 71

Greek, Modern (1453-) 51

Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 49

German 43

Italian 42

Spanish; Castilian 25

Dutch; Flemish 15

Russian 13

Irish 9

Welsh 8

English, Old (ca.450-1100) 7

Basque 6

Arabic 5

Chinese 5

Danish 5

Hebrew 5

Multiple languages 5

Polish 5

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Portuguese 5

Cornish 4

Undetermined 4

Czech 3

English, Middle (1100-1500) 3

Japanese 3

Norwegian 3

Swedish 3

Catalan; Valencian 2

Croatian 2

Persian 2

Scots 2

Slavic languages 2

No linguistic content; Not applicable 2

Afrikaans 1

Armenian 1

Basa 1

Celtic languages 1

Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic 1

Coptic 1

Estonian 1

Finnish 1

French, Old (842-ca.1400) 1

Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1

Hungarian 1

Icelandic 1

Provençal, Old (to 1500) 1

Romance languages 1

Slovak 1

Swahili 1

Syriac 1

Tamil 1

Turkish 1

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